Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:32:32 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/7] inflate pt1: clean up input logic |
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:18:44AM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:57:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > The email: > > > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.2/1024.html > > > > contains a full and clear explaination of the situation. The second > > paragraph of that email is key to understanding the problem and makes > > it absolutely clear what is trying to be decompressed as the initrd > > (the corrupted compressed piggy). > > FWIW, I didn't it either. "Work around broken boot firmware which passes > invalid initrd to kernel" would have been a simpler description.
Sigh, I'm sick of this crap. I'm not going to debate it any further.
> I agree that it would be nice if inflate.c would fail gracefully > instead of halting,
IT _DOES_ FAIL GRACEFULLY TODAY. WITH MATT'S PATCHES, IT _DOESN'T_. THAT'S A REGRESSION. WHAT IS IT ABOUT THAT WHICH PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND? DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT IN ONE SYLLABLE WORDS?
> but why can't you just use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n?
Because you might want to use an initrd for real (for installation purposes) and therefore distributions (eg Debian) want it turned on?
Okay, this does it - I'm ignoring further discussion on this stupid idiotic topic which is soo bloody difficult for others to understand.
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